CINNAMON MASCARPONE BAKED PEARS
This lovely, light pear dessert is simple, yet so refined. Baked in a little butter and brown sugar the pears alone are delish. Then they're topped with a dollop of a cinnamon mascarpone cheese mixture that's smooth and creamy. When done you could sprinkle these with a little more cinnamon and chopped nuts if you'd like.
Provided by Betsy Reader
Categories Fruit Desserts
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- 1. Preheat oven to 375. Halve pears lengthwise and core.
- 2. Place cored side up in a medium baking dish. Spoon 1/2 tsp brown sugar and 1/2 tsp butter into each cavity.
- 3. Pour the juice into the baking dish.
- 4. Bake for 25 minutes or until pears are tender.
- 5. In a bowl, combine mascarpone cheese, sugar, and cinnamon.
- 6. Top each pear half with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture and serve warm.
AMARETTO BAKED PEARS WITH MASCARPONE
I pull this recipe whenever I feel the need to impress. It is a wonderful dessert (and I don't "do" desserts as a rule). Beware of sharing the amaretto with the pears during cooking - result WILL vary - hic. Enjoy!
Provided by sams1
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 2 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- To make almond cream - Beat butter and sugar together until combined, add flour and egg until combined. Beat in almonds, stir in 3/4 of crushed biscuits.
- Pack 1 tablespoon of almond cream into the cored out section of each pear half.
- Split the vanilla pod in half, scrape out seeds and mix with sugar. Chop vanilla pod into large pieces.
- Place pears into baking dish, sprinkle over vanilla sugar, remaining biscuits, vanilla pod pieces and drizzle with amaretto.
- Bake in over at 200C gor 10 minutes or until pears are cooked.
- Mix together mascapone and icing sugar.
- Remove pears from oven and transfere to serving plates.
- Drizzle a little extra amaretto into baking dish and stir pan juices.
- Serve pan with sweetened mascopone and the amaretto pan juices - enjoy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1243.7, Fat 72.3, SaturatedFat 28.7, Cholesterol 213.2, Sodium 43.7, Carbohydrate 139.9, Fiber 12.8, Sugar 93.2, Protein 20.1
CHESTNUT HONEY-BAKED PEARS STUFFED WITH MASCARPONE
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine wine, 1/4 cup chestnut honey, water, cinnamon, and lemon zest in a medium saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the seeds and the scraped bean to the pot. Bring to a simmer, stirring. Pour the poaching liquid into a baking dish just large enough to hold the pears. Keeping stems intact, remove the core from the pear using a melon baller (apple corer) entering through the base and removing only the woody core and seeds. Trim the skin off the base only of the pear and place upright in baking dish. Bake the pears about 25 to 35 minutes or until tender. You must baste the pears with the liquid every 5 to 7 minutes. The skins should be crinkly. Remove from oven and let cool in the liquid.
- Combine the mascarpone with the remaining 1 tablespoon chestnut honey. Using a pastry bag, fill each pear at its base with the mascarpone. Serve drizzled with poaching syrup.
BAKED PEARS WITH VANILLA MASCARPONE
Bosc pears must be very ripe; Anjou, which are juicier, can be slightly firm. Avoid enamel baking dishes, as they cause the syrup to burn.
Yield serves 4
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Slice off the bottom of each pear just enough so it will stand upright. Using a melon baller or small spoon, remove the seeds from the bottom. Peel the upper half, leaving the stem intact; pat dry with a paper towel. Rub butter over the peeled part of each pear; stand the pears in a small baking dish (about 7 × 11 inches). Sprinkle with the sugar.
- Pour the wine into the baking dish; add the thyme sprigs, if using. Bake until the pears are soft when pierced with a paring knife and well browned, about 45 minutes; using a small spoon, baste the pears occasionally with the wine, adding a bit of water as needed to prevent the liquid from evaporating. Remove from the oven.
- Spoon some of the pan juices into each serving dish, and place a pear on top. Serve with a dollop of mascarpone and several biscotti on the side.
- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl, and stir together with a wooden spoon.
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